Guide to the School of Hotel Administration Director's Records,
1922-1981

Collection Number: 28-01-1803

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-3530
Fax: (607) 255-9524
rareref@cornell.edu
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
E. Engst
Date completed:
August 1987
EAD encoding:
Ann Hubert, June 2004

© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
School of Hotel Administration Director's records, 1922-1981.
Collection Number:
28-01-1803
Creator:
Cornell University. School of Hotel Administration. Director.
Quantity:
8.3 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, files, albums, records, reports, meeting minutes, plaques.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Records of the Director's Office and of Howard B. Meek include registration reports as well as school budgets, minutes of faculty and staff meetings, and reports.
Language:
Collection material in English

ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY

Directors and deans represented include Howard B. Meek, Robert A. Beck, and John J. Clark.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Records of the Director's Office include correspondence files; biographical files; and subject files, including files of the Courtney Memorial Fund. Records of Howard B. Meek include registration reports, with letters to Meek; correspondence; items relating to a Hotel School European tour; and plaques and awards given to Meek. Also, school budgets, 1954-1978; minutes of faculty and staff meetings, 1935-1981; report of the Education Committee of the American Hotel Association, 1944; and minutes of Deans' Council meetings, 1968-1970.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Cornell University.
Beck, Robert Alfred, 1920-
Clark, John J.
Meek, Howard B., 1893-

Subjects:
Hotel management--Study and teaching.
Hotel management schools--New York (State)--Ithaca.

Places:
Europe--Description and travel.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
School of Hotel Administration Director's records, #28-01-1803. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
Series I. History
Subseries A. Chronological files
1922
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 1
1923
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 2
1924
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 3
1925
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 4
1926
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 5
1927
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 6
1928
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 7
1929
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 8
1930
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 9
1931
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 10
1932
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 11
1933
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 12
1934
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 13
1935
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 14
1936
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 15
1937
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 16
1939
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 17
1940
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 18
1941
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 19
1942
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 20
1943
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 21
1944
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 22
1945
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 23
1946
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 24
1947
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 25
1948
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 26
1949
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 27
1950
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 28
1951
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 29
1952
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 30
1953
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 31
1954
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 32
1955
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 33
1957
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 34
1958
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 35
1959
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 36
1960
Chronological list of important events
 Box 1 Folder 37
1945
Chef's course
 Box 1 Folder 38
NCR posting machine
 Box 1 Folder 39
Tourism
 Box 1 Folder 40
Subseries B. Biographical files (list of folder contents in front of each file)
Boomer, Lucius M.
 Box 1 Folder 41
Callis, Harold B.
 Box 1 Folder 42
Day, Edmund E.
 Box 1 Folder 43
Eppley, Eugene C.
 Box 1 Folder 44
Gibson, A.W. and Student War Service Committee
Box 1 Folder 45
Green, Thomas D.
 Box 1 Folder 46
Hamilton, W.I.
 Box 1 Folder 47
Herndon, James B.
 Box 1 Folder 48
1913-1958
Hoie, John McF.
 Box 1 Folder 49
Kief, Raymond J.
 Box 1 Folder 50
McHatton, George
 Box 1 Folder 51
1923-1944
McKowne, Frank A.
 Box 1 Folder 52
Meek, Howard B.
 Box 1 Folder 53
Needham, William R.
 Box 1 Folder 54
Owen, Emerson
 Box 1 Folder 55
Pinco, Charles N.
 Box 1 Folder 56
Randolph, Frank H.
 Box 1 Folder 57
Recknagel, Helen J.
 Box 1 Folder 58
Rose, Flora
 Box 2 Folder 1
Shircliff, Arnold
 Box 2 Folder 2
1923-1962
Statler, Alice and Ellsworth M.
 Box 2 Folder 3
Toth, Lewis
 Box 2 Folder 4
Tschirky, Oscar, Leo, and Robert
 Box 2 Folder 5
Van Rensselaer, Martha
 Box 2 Folder 6
Vehling, Joseph D.
 Box 2 Folder 7
Windsor, Andrew L.
 Box 2 Folder 8
Subseries C. Subject file
Accelerated program
 Box 2 Folder 9
Army - Reg. QM students
 Box 2 Folder 10
Budget folder
 Box 2 Folder 11
CPA
 Box 2 Folder 12
Cornell Society of Hotelmen
 Box 2 Folder 13
Courtney Memorial Fund
Courtney memorial fund
 Box 2 Folder 14
1967
CICSF
 Box 2 Folder 15
"Impact of Hotel School Alumni Felt throughout the World," by Frank Ready
Box 2 Folder 16
Cornell Alumni Corporation
 Box 2 Folder 17
Alumni Trustee nominations
 Box 2 Folder 18
Bills and vochers
 Box 2 Folder 19
1920-1940's
Correspondence course
 Box 2 Folder 20
Good housekeeping (Lewis course)
 Box 2 Folder 21
Home Economics miscellany
 Box 2 Folder 22
1927-1947
Hospital administartion course explorations
Box 2 Folder 23
Menu planning course
 Box 2 Folder 24
Insurance course
 Box 2 Folder 25
1924-1941
National hotel exposition trips
 Box 2 Folder 26
Navy program
 Box 2 Folder 27
Naval ROTC
 Box 2 Folder 28
ROTC
 Box 2 Folder 29
Navy and marine possibilities
 Box 2 Folder 30
Old faculty
 Box 2 Folder 31
Olympics
 Box 2 Folder 32
Other hotel schools, philosophy on
 Box 2 Folder 33
1927-1951
Placement
 Box 2 Folder 34
Real estate course
 Box 2 Folder 35
Research
 Box 2 Folder 36
July 9, 1953
First explanatory conference on research in fields related to the operation of hotels
Box 2 Folder 37
July 9, 1953
First explanatory conference on research in fields related to the operation of hotels
Box 2 Folder 38
November 17, 1953
Reports and recommendations
 Box 2 Folder 38
Research
 Box 2 Folder 39
Series II. Howard B. Meek files
Subseries I. Administrative Records
Registration reports
October 1940
Letter to H.B. Meek
 Box 1 Folder 1
February 1941
Letter to H.B. Meek
 Box 1 Folder 2
October 1941
Letter to H.B. Meek
 Box 1 Folder 3
February 1942
Letter to H.B. Meek
 Box 1 Folder 4
September 1942
Letter to H.B. Meek
 Box 1 Folder 5
February 1943
Letter to H.B. Meek
 Box 1 Folder 6
July 1943
Letter to H.B. Meek
 Box 1 Folder 7
November 1943
Letter to H.B. Meek
 Box 1 Folder 8
Spring 1944
Letter to H.B. Meek
 Box 1 Folder 9
July 1944
Letter to H.B. Meek
 Box 1 Folder 10
November 1944
Letter to H.B. Meek
 Box 1 Folder 11
March 1949
Letter to H.B. Meek
 Box 1 Folder 12
February 1940
Estimated registration
 Box 1 Folder 13
February 1940
Expected registration
 Box 1 Folder 14
September 1941
Expected registration
 Box 1 Folder 15
September 1940
Registration
 Box 1 Folder 16
February 1941
Registration
 Box 1 Folder 17
September 1941
Registration
 Box 1 Folder 18
February 1942
Registration
 Box 1 Folder 19
1940
Registration Report
 Box 4 Folder 1
1941
Registration Report
 Box 4 Folder 2
1941
Registration Report
 Box 4 Folder 3
1942
Registration Report
 Box 4 Folder 4
1942
Registration Report
 Box 4 Folder 5
1943
Registration Report
 Box 4 Folder 6
1943
Registration Report
 Box 4 Folder 7
1943
Registration Report
 Box 4 Folder 8
1944
Registration Report
 Box 4 Folder 9
1944
Registration Report
 Box 4 Folder 10
1944
Registration Report
 Box 4 Folder 11
1949
Registration Report
 Box 4 Folder 12
Correspondence
1948-1951
A-C
 Box 4 Folder 13
1948-1950
"To Buildings and Grounds"
 Box 4 Folder 14
1942-1950
"To Day"
 Box 4 Folder 15
1941-1950
"To Holabird and Root and Burgee"
 Box 4 Folder 16
February 1942
D-O
 Box 4 Folder 17
February 1942
"To Parke"
 Box 4 Folder 18
February 1942
P-Z
 Box 4 Folder 19
Miscellaneous
February 1942
Miscellaneous
 Box 4 Folder 20
1947-1949
Miscellaneous
 Box 4 Folder 21
1949
Report No. V
 Box 4 Folder 22
1948
Statler Hotel Sound Equipment
 Box 4 Folder 23
1937
Sample Hotel School Exam Questions
 Box 4 Folder 24
Cornerstone ceremonies
 Box 5 Folder 1
Purchasing department
 Box 5 Folder 2
Sayles, Charles I.
 Box 5 Folder 3
Dedication
 Box 5 Folder 4
Faculty Club
 Box 5 Folder 5
Bamberth, Hugo
 Box 5 Folder 6
Meek retirement
 Box 5 Folder 7
OPA (Office of Price Administration) and Palmer, Archie M.
Box 5 Folder 8
OPA
 Box 5 Folder 9-10
Minimum Wage Board, New York State Department of Labor
Box 5 Folder 11
Kittamat Hotel survey
 Box 5 Folder 12
Thayer Hotel
 Box 5 Folder 13
Statler Foundation
 Box 5 Folder 14
Buying retirement on the loss of state status
Box 6 Folder 12
Sales course
 Box 6 Folder 13
Scholarships
 Box 6 Folder 14
Secretarial science
 Box 6 Folder 15
National Executive Housekeepers Association (Summer School)
Box 6 Folder 16
Teacher Training for Chefs
 Box 6 Folder 17
1946-1951
Veterans Administration
 Box 6 Folder 18
Wines course
 Box 6 Folder 19
Subseries II. European tour
1955
Hotel tour participants
 Box 5 Folder 15
1953
Participants and prospects, correspondence re European hotel and restaurant executives tour
Box 5 Folder 16
1955
Pictures and questionnaires
 Box 5 Folder 17
1955
Miscellany
 Box 5 Folder 18
Prospects
 Box 5 Folder 19
1954-1956
Meek correspondence re tours
 Box 5 Folder 20
Flyers, maps, etc.
 Box 5 Folder 21
"Old"
 Box 6 Folder 1
Itineraries, etc.
 Box 6 Folder 2
Promotion
 Box 6 Folder 3
Promotion - early
 Box 6 Folder 4
1958
Vouchers
 Box 6 Folder 5
1953
Europe memoirs
 Box 6 Folder 6
Subseries III. Commemorative Items
Placques and awards
Hotel Ezra Cornell - appreciation placque
Box 6 Folder 7
Apr. 3, 1961
Hotel Association of Washington, D.C. - placque for outstanding service
Box 6 Folder 8
May 5, 1964
Texas Hotel and Motel Association, Distinguished Service Award
Box 6 Folder 9
New York State Hotel Association, honorary life membership card
Box 6 Folder 10
May 25, 1961
Honorary citizen of Texas
 Box 6 Folder 11
"The Growth of an Idea," scrapbook documenting the first 25 years of the Hotel School
Box 6 Folder 20
Jan. 9, 1961
"Testimonial Dinner in Honor of Dean Howard Bagnall Meek," scrapbook
Box 6 Folder 21
Mar. 10, 1961
"Meekbake," The New England Chapter of the Cornell Society of Hotelmen, scrapbook
Box 6 Folder 22
Mar. 16, 1961
"Testimonial Dinner in Honor of Dean Howard B. Meek," scrapbook
Box 6 Folder 23
Apr. 3, 1961
"Professor Howard Bagnall Meek," testimonial dinner, Mayflower Hotel (album)
Box 7
June 13-15, 1937
"A Pictorial Commemorative of the visit of Professor H.B. Meek and the Graduating Class of the Hotel Administration of Cornell University to the Greenbriar..." (photograph album)
Box 7
Loose material
Loose material from testimonial dinner album
Box 7 Folder 1
H.B. Meek miscellany
 Box 7 Folder 2
1950-1951
Trip to South America
 Box 7 Folder 3
Miscellaneous Cornell University material
Box 7 Folder 4-5
Hotel management clippings, Bureau of Good Ideas
Box 7 Folder 6
Menus, etc., not used
 Box 7 Folder 7
European trip miscellany
 Box 7 Folder 8-9
Hotel accounting, slide preparation
 Box 7 Folder 10
1954-1978
School Budgets
 Box 8
1970
Dean's Council Minutes
 Box 8
Future Projects-Beck
 Box 8
1978
Faculty Minutes
 Box 8
1969-1972
Faculty Minutes
 Box 8
1922-1933
Budget for Hotel School
 Box 8
1968-1970
Dean's Council
 Box 9
1944
Education Committee Report
 Box 9
1976-1978
Staff Meetings
 Box 9
1972-1976
Faculty Meetings
 Box 9
1975-1981
Petit. Meetings
 Box 9
1935-1959
Faculty Minutes
 Box 9
Cornell Fac. Salaries Analysis
 Box 9
1963-1967
Dean's Conferences
 Box 10